This is a list of Procellariiformes species by global population. While numbers are estimates, they have been made by the experts in their fields. For more information on how these estimates were ascertained, see Wikipedia's articles on population biology and population ecology.
This list is not comprehensive, as not all Procellariiformes have had their numbers quantified.
Common name | Binomial name | data-sort-type="number" width="15%" | Population | Status | Trend | Notes | Image | |
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Fiji petrel | Pseudobulweria macgillivrayi | 50[1] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | Maximum estimate. | ||||
Guadalupe storm petrel | Oceanodroma macrodactyla | 50[2] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | Unknown | Maximum estimate; possibly extinct. | |||
Jamaican petrel | Pterodroma caribbaea | 50[3] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | Unknown | Maximum estimate; possibly extinct, but difficult to confirm due to its (former?) nocturnal nature. | |||
New Zealand storm petrel | Oceanites maorianus | 50[4] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | Unknown | Maximum estimate. | |||
Beck's petrel | Pseudobulweria becki | 70 – 400[5] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | "Rediscovered" in 2007. | ||||
Zino's petrel | Pterodroma madeira | 130 – 160[6] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | |||||
Whenua Hou diving petrel | Pelecanoides georgicus whenuahouensis | ~150[7] | CR | Threatened due to introduced rats and rising sea levels | ||||
Magenta petrel | Pterodroma magentae | 150 – 200[8] | ||||||
Amsterdam albatross | Diomedea amsterdamensis | 170[9] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | Only ~26 pairs breeding annually on the upper plateau of Île Amsterdam. Population was presumably higher before introduced cattle degraded lower elevation breeding sites. | ||||
Bermuda petrel | Pterodroma cahow | 250[10] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | |||||
Heinroth's shearwater | Puffinus heinrothi | 350 – 1500[11] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | |||||
Monteiro's storm petrel | Oceanodroma monteiroi | 350 – 1500[12] | align=center style="background:#CEF2E0" | |||||
Townsend's shearwater | Puffinus auricularis | 350 – 1500[13] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | |||||
Collared petrel | Pterodroma brevipes | 1000 – 10 000[14] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | |||||
Trindade petrel | Pterodroma arminjoniana | 1130[15] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | |||||
Chatham petrel | Pterodroma axillaris | 1400[16] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | |||||
Polynesian storm petrel | Nesofregetta fuliginosa | 1500 – 2400[17] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | Preliminary estimate. | ||||
Short-tailed albatross | Phoebastria albatrus | 2200 – 2500[18] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | |||||
Jouanin's petrel | Bulweria fallax | 2500 – 9999[19] | align=center style="background:#CEF2E0" | |||||
Fea's petrel | Pterodroma feae | 3000[20] | align=center style="background:#CEF2E0" | |||||
Gould's petrel | Pterodroma leucoptera | 3000 – 21 000[21] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | |||||
Black petrel | Procellaria parkinsoni | 5000[22] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | |||||
Ashy storm petrel | Oceanodroma homochroa | 5200 – 10 000[23] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | |||||
Tristan albatross | Diomedea dabbenena | 7100[24] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | |||||
Barau's petrel | Pterodroma baraui | 9000 – 12 000[25] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | |||||
Hawaiian petrel | Pterodroma sandwichensis | 9000 – 16 600[26] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | Numbers may be underestimated. | ||||
Masatierra petrel | Pterodroma defilippiana | 10 000 – 19 999[27] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | |||||
Galápagos petrel | Pterodroma phaeopygia | 10 000 – 19 999[28] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | |||||
Balearic shearwater | Puffinus mauretanicus | 13 000 – 20 000[29] | align=center style="background:#F08080" | Preliminary estimate. | ||||
Chatham albatross | Thalassarche eremita | 16 000 [30] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | |||||
Westland petrel | Procellaria westlandica | 16 000[31] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | |||||
Northern giant petrel | Macronectes halli | 17 000 – 21 000[32] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
Matsudaira's storm petrel | Oceanodroma matsudairae | 20 000[33] | align=center style="background:#FFFFFF" | Unknown | Preliminary estimate for mature individuals. | |||
Tahiti petrel | Pseudobulweria rostrata | 20 000 – 30 000[34] | align=center style="background:#CEF2E0" | |||||
Wandering albatross | Diomedea exulans | 20 100[35] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | Estimate is for mature individuals only. | ||||
Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross | Thalassarche chlororhynchos | 21 000 – 32 000 [36] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | Estimate is for mature individuals only. | ||||
Northern royal albatross | Diomedea sanfordi | 25 000 – 26 000[37] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | Estimate may be dated. | ||||
Southern royal albatross | Diomedea epomophora | 27 200[38] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | Estimate is for mature individuals only. | ||||
Sooty albatross | Phoebetria fusca | 28 000[39] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | Estimate is for mature individuals only (14 000 pairs). | ||||
Tristram's storm petrel | Oceanodroma tristrami | 30 000[40] | align=center style="background:#CEF2E0" | Maximum estimate. | ||||
Cape Verde shearwater | Calonectris edwardsii | 30 000[41] | align=center style="background:#CEF2E0" | |||||
Phoenix petrel | Pterodroma alba | 30 000[42] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | Preliminary estimate. | ||||
Elliot's storm petrel | Oceanites gracilis | 30 000[43] | align=center style="background:#FFFFFF" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
Pycroft's petrel | Pterodroma pycrofti | 30 000 – 40 000[44] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | |||||
Spectacled petrel | Procellaria conspicillata | 38 000[45] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | |||||
Antipodean albatross | Diomedea antipodensis | 44 500[46] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | Estimate is for mature individuals only. | ||||
Yelkouan shearwater | Puffinus yelkouan | 46 000 – 92 000 [47] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | Preliminary estimate. | ||||
Markham's storm petrel | Oceanodroma markhami | 50 000[48] | align=center style="background:#FFFFFF" | Unknown | Minimum estimate. | |||
Shy albatross | Thalassarche cauta | 60 000 – 70 000 [49] | align=center style="background:#CEF2E0" | Unknown | ||||
Newell's shearwater | Puffinus newelli | 84 000[50] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | |||||
Light-mantled albatross | Phoebetria palpebrata | 87 000[51] | align=center style="background:#CEF2E0" | |||||
Salvin's albatross | Thalassarche salvini | 90 000 [52] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | Unknown | ||||
Pink-footed shearwater | Puffinus creatopus | 100 000[53] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | Unknown | Preliminary maximum estimate. | |||
Southern giant petrel | Macronectes giganteus | 100 000[54] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | Mature population is "approaching" this number. | ||||
Providence petrel | Pterodroma solandri | 100 000[55] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | |||||
Fluttering shearwater | Puffinus gavia | 100 000[56] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
Swinhoe's storm petrel | Oceanodroma monorhis | 100 000[57] | align=center style="background:#CEF2E0" | Quite possibly underestimated; a recent study gives a minimum of 130 000 pairs. | ||||
Black-footed albatross | Phoebastria nigripes | 129 000[58] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | Estimate is for mature individuals only. | ||||
Band-rumped storm petrel | Oceanodroma castro | 150 000[59] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
Christmas shearwater | Puffinus nativitatis | 150 000[60] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
Trindade petrel | Pterodroma heraldica | 150 000[61] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
White-necked petrel | Pterodroma cervicalis | 150 000[62] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | |||||
Kermadec petrel | Pterodroma neglecta | 150 000 – 200 000[63] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
Fulmar prion | Pachyptila crassirostris | 150 000 – 300 000[64] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
Indian yellow-nosed albatross | Thalassarche carteri | 160 000 [65] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | "Perhaps" a minimum estimate. | ||||
Grey-backed storm petrel | Garrodia nereis | 200 000[66] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | "Potential" minimum estimate. | ||||
Black-vented shearwater | Puffinus opisthomelas | 200 000 – 250 000[67] | align=center style="background:#CEF2E0" | Unknown | ||||
Grey-headed albatross | Thalassarche chrysostoma | 250 000 [68] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | Minimum estimate for mature individuals. | ||||
White-bellied storm petrel | Fregetta grallaria | 300 000[69] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
Hutton's shearwater | Puffinus huttoni | 300 000 – 350 000[70] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | |||||
Grey petrel | Procellaria cinerea | 400 000[71] | align=center style="background:#CEF2E0" | Preliminary estimate. | ||||
Stejneger's petrel | Pterodroma longirostris | 400 000[72] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
Audubon's shearwater | Puffinus lherminieri | 500 000[73] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
Black-bellied storm petrel | Fregetta tropica | 500 000[74] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
Black storm petrel | Oceanodroma melania | 500 000[75] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
Wedge-rumped storm petrel | Oceanodroma tethys | 500 000[76] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
Bulwer's petrel | Bulweria bulwerii | 500 000 – 1 000 000[77] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
White-headed petrel | Pterodroma lessonii | 600 000[78] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
Flesh-footed shearwater | Puffinus carneipes | 650 000[79] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
Cook's petrel | Pterodroma cookii | 670 000[80] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | Estimate is for mature individuals only. | ||||
Little shearwater | Puffinus assimilis | 900 000[81] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
Cory's shearwater | Calonectris diomedea | 900 000 – 1 200 000[82] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | Preliminary estimate. | ||||
Bonin petrel | Pterodroma hypoleuca | 1 000 000[83] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | Population "approaches" this number. | ||||
Kerguelen petrel | Lugensa brevirostris | 1 000 000[84] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
Manx shearwater | Puffinus puffinus | 1 050 000 – 1 170 000 [85] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
Black-browed albatross | Thalassarche melanophrys | 1 150 000 [86] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | Estimate is for mature individuals only. | ||||
European storm petrel | Hydrobates pelagicus | 1 290 000 – 1 530 000 [87] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
Great-winged petrel | Pterodroma macroptera | 1 500 000[88] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
Laysan albatross | Phoebastria immutabilis | 1 700 000[89] | align=center style="background:#CEF2E0" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
Cape petrel | Daption capense | 2 000 000[90] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
Buller's shearwater | Puffinus bulleri | 2 500 000[91] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | Estimate is dated; numbers may now be lower. | ||||
Streaked shearwater | Calonectris leucomelas | 3 000 000[92] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
Blue petrel | Halobaena caerulea | 3 000 000[93] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
Juan Fernández petrel | Pterodroma externa | 3 000 000[94] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | Minimum estimate from 1986, but population appears to remain steady. | ||||
White-chinned petrel | Procellaria aequinoctialis | 3 000 000[95] | align=center style="background:#b0f4b0" | Estimate is for mature individuals only. | ||||
Southern fulmar | Fulmarus glacialoides | 4 000 000[96] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
Snow petrel | Pagodroma nivea | 4 000 000[97] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
White-faced storm petrel | Pelagodroma marina | 4 000 000[98] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
Atlantic petrel | Pterodroma incerta | 5 000 000[99] | align=center style="background:#FAEB86" | |||||
Fairy prion | Pachyptila turtur | 5 000 000[100] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
Soft-plumaged petrel | Pterodroma mollis | 5 000 000[101] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
Wedge-tailed shearwater | Puffinus pacificus | 5 200 000[102] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
Fork-tailed storm petrel | Oceanodroma furcata | 6 000 000[103] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
Slender-billed prion | Pachyptila belcheri | 7 000 000[104] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
Black-winged petrel | Pterodroma nigripennis | 8 000 000 – 10 000 000[105] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
Antarctic petrel | Thalassoica antarctica | 10 000 000 – 20 000 000 [106] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
Salvin's prion | Pachyptila salvini | 12 000 000[107] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
Wilson's storm petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | 12 000 000 – 30 000 000[108] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
South Georgia diving petrel | Pelecanoides georgicus | 15 000 000[109] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
Broad-billed prion | Pachyptila vittata | 15 000 000[110] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
Great shearwater | Puffinus gravis | 15 000 000[111] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
Northern fulmar | Fulmarus glacialis | 15 000 000 – 30 000 000[112] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | |||||
Common diving petrel | Pelecanoides urinatrix | 16 000 000[113] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
Leach's storm petrel | Oceanodroma leucorhoa | 20 000 000[114] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
Sooty shearwater | Puffinus griseus | 20 000 000[115] | align=center style="background:#CEF2E0" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
Short-tailed shearwater | Puffinus tenuirostris | 23 000 000 [116] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" | Minimum estimate. | ||||
Antarctic prion | Pachyptila desolata | 50 000 000[117] | align=center style="background:#B0E0E6" |